Carrie Baade

Background

Baade was born in New Orleans but spent the majority of her early years in a small town in central Colorado, where she graduated from high school.

Education

She attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997. In 2003, she earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Delaware.

Career

Education and Early During that period she spent a year in Italy studying the techniques of the old masters at the Florence Academy of Artist Exhibitions, Grants, and R.

Achievements

• Carrie Ann has been nominated for the United States Artists Fellowship (2006) and the Joan Mitchell Grant (2012) and received the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artists, and many more. Her paintings have been featured in various narrative art exhibitions including: "Solar Midnight" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (solo show,) "In Canon" at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, "Suggestivism" at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Monica, and "Another Roadside Attraction" at International Securities Exchange Cultural Foundation in New York City. In 2007 she was among a group of three artists who became the first Americans ever to exhibit at the Ningbo Museum of Art, one of the largest provincial museums in China, located outside of Shanghai. The director of the Ningbo Museum called them "the Mayflowers" for their contributions as cultural ambassadors. Baade has exhibited in group shows alongside the likes of Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, Chet Zar, Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Mark Mothersbaugh, Daniel Martin Diaz, Chris Mars, Jessica Joslin, Gary Baseman, Kris Kuksi Travis Louie, Molly Crabapple, Greg Simkins, Christopher Ulrich, Julie Heffernan, Ron English, Christian Rex van Minnen, Audrey Kawasaki, Jeff Soto, Madeline von Foerster, and Nicola Verlato In 2011, Baade curated "Cute and Creepy", a large group exhibit at the Museum of Fine Art at Florida State University including many of the biggest names in the contemporary popular surrealist movement. This represented a major cultural shift, being the first time works of this genre had ever been presented in a major show in an academic, museum setting.